Word & Image Gallery

Word & Image Gallery

APRIL 2; 3 - 5 PM
APRIL 2 - 28
Mary Ashwood studied poetry under Donald Petersen, and went on to
study fiction writing at NYU. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals. She has had several stories
published in Highlights for Children and has won its Author of the Month award. Saba and Ashwood have also
published a picture book which has garnered much praise from schools around the country. Ashwood has twice
served on the international Board on Books for Young People’s Hans Christian Award Nominating Committee
for which her critical discourse on thenominees was published in both Bridges and Bookbird. Her annotations
of international books published in the US and Canada are included in USBBY’s Reading the World’s Stories.
Ashwood has also been a reader for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel and Emerging Writer’s Awards.
Richard Saba began showing his paintings in 1967. Since then he has had
more than 70 exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and throughout the US. His work is in several museum and corporate
collections and has been featured in every major art journal. He is the recipient of grants from the Ford
Foundation and is a two-time Pollock/Krasner Foundation award winner. He was recently awarded the
prestigious Basil Alkazzi Award for Excellence.

FLORA: AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING COLLABORATION

EXHIBIT - JACK BEAL / SONDRA FRECKLETON; ANN MCGARRELL, POET; JACK BEAL, ARTIST; & WALTER HAMADY, BOOKMAKER
Jack Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1931. He studied at the Norfolk
Division of the College of William and Mary and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts in 1972 underscores his long list of accomplishments. The Art Institute of
Boston awarded Beal an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts in 1992 and in 1994 Hollins College in Virginia
awarded him a Doctorate of Humane Letters. The American realist painter has lectured at over 100 schools,
universities and museums, including University of Indiana, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin and
Cooper Union. Beal lives and works in New York City and Oneonta, New York. Beal is best known for his
paintings, murals and fine draftsmanship. In the early 1960's, he courageously renounced abstract
expressionism for realism. He is among the diverse painters of "New Realism" who arose during the late
1960's. He is more closely aligned to Philip Pearlstein and Alfred Leslie than to the Photo-Realists.
Particularly noteworthy are his compositions of the figure in interior environments filled with complex
patterned fabrics, diagonal thrust and a point of view slightly below eye level. Publications that document his
evolution as an artist include Eric Shanes' monograph Jack Beal, 1993; John Arthur's Realists at Work, 1983;
and Mark Strand's Art of the Real, 1983. More than fifteen solo exhibitions at Allan Frumkin Gallery,
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, and George Adams Gallery in New York and Chicago, as well as numerous
international group exhibitions, have celebrated Beal's work since 1965. Four murals on The History of
American Labor are among his national commissions. It took nearly three years to paint them. When they were
complete in 1977, they were installed in the Department of Labor Building in Washington, D.C. In New York,
Beal is represented in the prestigious collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum,
Museum of Modern Art, and the Neuberger Museum. Other museums that include Beal in their collections are
the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Brunswick Corporation, Ciba-Geigy
Corporation, and Philip Morris Collection are among his patrons. More recently he has completed two mosaic
murals for the Times Square Station of the New York subways. In 1995, Beal collaborated with Stewart &
Stewart to do a screenprint. Tulip Angélique was drawn en plein air by the artist in the pink border garden of
the Stewart's terrace, not far from their Bloomfield Hills, Michigan studio. The gracefully simple composition
of Tulip Angélique vacillates between abstraction and realism. It is characteristically Beal -- a point of view
slightly below eye level, articulate contour lines and dynamic diagonal thrust.
Sondra Freckelton was born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1936 and studied at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She began her career as a sculptor working in wood and plastics,
exhibiting under her married name, Sondra Beal. She debuted at the Museum of Modern Art in the “Recent
Sculpture U.S.A.” show in 1959 and achieved her first one-man show at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1960.
During the mid-1970's Ms. Freckelton was one of several noted abstract artists who turned to realism in their
work. She began working in transparent watercolor-a logical extension of the delicate watercolor studies she
had done for her transparent vacuum-formed sculptures. She had her first solo show of large-scale color
saturated watercolors with the Brooke Alexander Gallery in 1976. Numerous museums, galleries and traveling
shows throughout the United States have exhibited her watercolors. She has had solo exhibits at major
galleries in New York, Chicago, Washington, D. C., and San Francisco. Some of the public collections that
include her work are the Art Institute of Chicago; Dennos Museum, MI; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI;
Madison Art Center, WI; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
VA; Oklahoma City Museum; and Oglethorpe Museum, GA. Ms. Freckelton's work and teaching philosophy are the subjects of the Watson-Guptill publication entitled Dynamic Still Lifes in Watercolor by M. Stephen Doherty.
Some other publications that include her work are Contemporary American Realist Drawings, Hudson Hills Press, 1999;
American Watercolor, by Chris Finch, Abbeville Press, 1986; and The Art of Watercolor, by Charles LeClair, WatsonGuptill,
NY, 1994. Sondra Freckelton lives and works near Oneonta, New York at the home and studio she and
her late husband, Jack Beal, built.
Walter Hamady (born September 13, 1940) or, in full, Walter Samuel Haatoum
Hamady, is an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his
innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking. In the mid-1960s, he founded The
Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill, and soon after joined the faculty at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught for more than thirty years. On his father's side, Hamady is descended
from Lebanese Druze immigrants who founded a prominent grocery store chain in Flint, Michigan. His mother
was an Iowa-born physician (a pediatrician and, later, a psychiatrist). His parents' marriage fell apart during
Hamady's childhood, resulting in his being raised by his mother, with the support of his paternal grandfather
(his beloved Jidu (grandfather)), Ralph Haatoum Hamady, whom Hamady has described as "a wonderful man
[from Baakline, Lebanon] who came to America as a teenager in 1907".
Ann McGarrell spun her surroundings into verse. Everyday life, politics, personal
tragedies and even roadway accidents found their way into her poems. Wife to the accomplished painter and
printmaker James McGarrell, she was a noted translator, having won in 1997 the prestigious PEN Renato
Poggioli Prize for her version of Vittoria Ronchey’s Il volto di Iside (The Face of Isis). After high school she
enrolled at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and in 1953, she graduated and became a story editor at the
movie production company C.V. Whitney Pictures. Her husband’s career took them across the United States
and several other countries. Ann and James McGarrell lived in Oregon, then Indiana, then St. Louis, and finally
in Newbury, NH. She died in 2016.

THE WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT JUNE 4, 3 -5 PM; JUNE 4 - 23

BRUCE GODDARD, FRANKLIN, NY
BRUCE GODDARD was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947 and grew up as a
“service brat” in the east coast, midwest and southern states. In 1969 he graduated from the University of
Georgia with a degree in psychology. Bruce left Atlanta for the San Francisco Bay area and lived in Alameda,
Oakland and Berkeley where he was the stock manager at the Organic Foods Co-op. Weekday afternoons he
crossed the Bay Bridge to take photography classes at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1977 Bruce started a
career in pharmaceutical research working for ICN in the Los Angeles area. In 1979 he moved to New York
City working in regulatory affairs for LIPHA, a French pharmaceutical company. Bruce rediscovered the right
side of his brain and studied painting and life drawing with expressionist painter Peter Cox at the New York Academy of Art in 1986!1988. After moving to Westchester County in 1988, he continued to paint
independently from his home studio in Somers, NY. In 2008 Bruce and his wife Amy moved to Delaware
County where he became interested in metal sculpture and took welding classes at BOCES. A few years later,
he picked up painting once again, and now spends every Wednesday painting with egg tempera painter Jane
Carr at her studio in Treadwell, NY. Bruce loves the immediate feedback from Jane and other artists who often
come to paint at Jane’s “Wednesday Painters” sessions. Bruce paints in acrylic on gesso board. Amongst his
favorite subjects, Bruce enjoys painting images that reveal some small personal part of everyday life. His
favorite quote is from Samuel Beckett: “From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out
of sight, no, I can’t do it.” Bruce lives on 33 acres in Franklin, NY with Amy, where they grow organic garlic.
They keep two Icelandic horses, a miniature donkey, a cat and several chickens.

THE WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT JUNE 4, 3 -5 PM; JUNE 4 - 23

Edmond Rinnooy-Kan is a Dutch citizen, residing permanently in the
USA since 2005. He started his professional life in medicine. After graduating from medical school and
finishing his doctoral thesis, he quit both science and medicine to pursue his first love: the visual arts. RinnooyKan
went to art school in New York City (Parson's School of Design) and Amsterdam (Wackers Academy).
Thereafter, he worked as an art director and designer in Amsterdam for a number of different agencies. In
1994, he started his own "Design and Communication Company" that employed 20 people at its peak. During
those years, Rinnooy-Kan always kept up his studio and continued to involve himself in the creation of fine arts
as much as time would allow. Since moving to the USA, he works full time as a fine artist. Rinnooy-Kan
shows his work both in the USA and in Europe. He is represented by Galerie Lughien in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. http://www.edmondrinnooykan.net

EXHIBIT OPENING - BERTHA ROGERS; AUGUST 6, 3 -5 PM; AUGUST 6 - 25

Bertha Rogers' visual art has been shown in more than 100 solo and
juried exhibits throughout the U.S. and internationally. In 2000 she received a Ludwig Vogelstein grant for
excellence in poetry and art; and in 2006 she was the recipient of an AE Ventures Grant for excellence in
poetry and visual art and for contributions to the field through the not-for-profit literary press and center she founded in 1992, brighthillpress.org. She has also received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell, the
Millay Colony for the Arts, Saltonstall, Jentel, and Caldera Foundations; and from the Hawthornden
International Writers Retreat (Scotland) and Pocantico Hills, NY. Her word and image works have been shown
in hundreds of juried and solo exhibits throughout the US and Europe and are collected in the Harry Ransom
Archive at the University of Texas and other private and public collections. In 2009 she was awarded a DEC
grant for her interdisciplinary exhibit “Riddle Me This: The Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems Translated &
Illuminated”; the show was at DCHA Museum, Hanford Mills Museum, and the WH Adams Bookstore; it later
toured to the Syracuse YMCA Gallery and now to the Dan Welden Gallery. She has received numerous other
New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts grants, as well as several Poets and
Writers grants. A master teaching artist, she was given, in 2007, the Teaching Artist Distinguished Service to
the Arts in Education Field Award by Partners for Arts Education and the Association of Teaching Artists in
New York. She serves as program director for the New York State Literary Web Site, nyslittree.org, publisher
of the first Literary Map of New York State (2005), in partnership with the New York State Council on the
Arts, and she is a member of the New York State Writers in the Schools Panel as well as the Empire State
Writers Hall of Fame panel. More than 400 of Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies, and the
collections Heart Turned Back (Salmon Poetry Press, Ireland); Even the Hemlock: Poems, Illuminations,
Reliquaries (Six Swans Artists Editions, NY, 2005); The Fourth Beast (chapbook, Snark Press, IL, 2004); A
House of Corners (Three Conditions Press, Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest Winner, 2000); and
Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, NY 1991). Her translation of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, was
published in 2000 (Birch Brook Press, NY), and her translation of the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon
Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things, will be published in 2016.

YOLANDA SHARPE, ONEONTA, NY VISUAL ARTIST
Yolanda Sharpe grew up in Detroit, Michigan and relocated to upstate
New York, where she has resided since 1987. Within the last few years, the
work—especially the encaustic paintings, revealed a creative energy that was shaped by
her formative years in Michigan when she studied painting and printmaking at Wayne
State University in graduate school in Detroit. Some of her encaustic paintings try to
capture Detroit’s beauty, decay, and re-ruralization. There is a shift now in focus that
appears evident in her latest encaustic paintings, and she is not sure what to say about
them other than that they reflect the combined urban/rural area where she presently lives
in Oneonta. Sharpe is a mid-career contemporary artist whose work can be found in
public and private collections. The encaustic paintings, pen and ink drawings, and
watercolor paintings represent her range of creative interests. All of her artworks are
compatible for residential and corporate spaces. Also, she collaborates with designers
and architects to provide art for the above-mentioned spaces, and develop new works for
corporate commissions.

MARLY YOUMANS, COOPERSTOWN, NY POET & WRITER
MARLY YOUMANS is the award-winning author of thirteen books of poetry
and fiction. Her most recent novels are Maze of Blood, Glimmerglass, and A Death at the White Camellia
Orphanage. Her most recent poetry books are Thaliad, The Throne of Psyche, and The Foliate Head.

GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS FOR 2018 EXHIBITSWord and Image Gallery

Bright Hill Literary Center’s Word & Image Gallery, 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY, dedicated to the exhibition of artworks that successfully integrate language and visual art, announces a call for exhibit proposals for 2016 & 2017. Postmark deadline for proposals, sent to the Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center, POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846-0193, November 30, 2015.Work to be considered for the the 2018 season will be work that successfully integrates words & images and may be either two- or three-dimensional. Interested artists will submit a written proposal; exhibit proposals by artists working collaboratively will also be considered. Materials that must be included in the proposal package are:Exhibit proposal, no more than 500 words;Artist’s statement, no more than 200 words (if a collaborative proposal, statements by all included artists);Artist’s biography, no more than 200 words (if a collaborative proposal, statements by all included artists);Artist’s resume, no more than 4 pages (include complete contact information, i.e., web site, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone/cell phone number(s);CD with 20 digital images of the work proposed or work that is closely representative of the work proposed;Four examples of the writing that will accompany the images or be incorporated into the images;Self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of materials.NOTE:On acceptance, Bright Hill will provide written dimensions of the gallery to the artist;Selected artist will be required to mat and frame or otherwise prepare his/her work for display;Selected artist will install his/her exhibit (Bright Hill staff will be on hand to help, if necessary)Artist will supply Bright Hill with a list of all artworks to be included in exhibit, plus media, and sale price (60 percent of exhibit works must be for sale). Bright Hill will prepare labels for walls (our wall labels include name of work, medium, and price).Artist will pay the cost of printing 1,000 4″ x 6″ or 5.5″ x 8.5″ postcards; Bright Hill will prepare the artwork, work with the printer, and pay for the cost of mailing postcards to BHP’s list and to that of the artist (a total of about 800 postcards); BHP will also feature the artist’s work on the organization’s e-letter and on Facebook;Bright Hill will e-mail press releases with accompanying jpegs to more than100 print and broadcast media throughout New York’s Catskill Mountain Region, the Central Leatherstocking Region, and the Capital Region—if artist has specific recommendations for press releases he/she may give that information to BHP, and BHP will send releases to those addresses.

Bright Hill takes a 30 percent commission on sales; payment will be made to artist at completion of exhibit.